Comprehensive and insightful views on becoming, and thriving as, a technology executive. Alan provides remarkable solutions to challenges every tech leader faces.Ankit MathurForeword author · Co-Founder, Roundtrip Health
The book that started the firm
Written by a CTO who took the job with no instruction manual, made the mistakes, and later spent years advising other CTOs through the same ones. Published 2023. Available in three languages.
What it is for
It is a manual for the parts of the job nobody hands you a manual for. How to run a release, evaluate a vendor, read a budget, and have the CFO conversation you have been avoiding. How to know, on any given Tuesday, what your team is actually doing.
It is not a technology cookbook telling you to pick Java over C#, or the cloud over a data center. What remains is advice specific enough to act on tomorrow.
What people said
Pulled from the book’s back cover and foreword.
Comprehensive and insightful views on becoming, and thriving as, a technology executive. Alan provides remarkable solutions to challenges every tech leader faces.Ankit MathurForeword author · Co-Founder, Roundtrip Health
Interesting and very useful. I could have used this as I moved into CTO roles early in my career.Jothy RosenbergDover Microsystems
An awesome collection of strategies and real-life stories! Every paragraph describes a situation many of us have experienced or an actionable step to deal with it.Matt FerdererMighty Gnomes
Contents
Every chapter, no filler.
Translations
Translations were initiated by readers and publishers, not by us. Each was reviewed by a native technical leader before going to print.
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